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Jackets Conquer Chelios
At this stage of the Blue Jackets season, it takes something like a 48 year old defensemen getting called up to play for the opposing team to make things interesting – and he was a factor in helping score both of the Jackets goals last night.
The first goal he was trying to block an Umberger [...]Jeff Benson | March 12, 2010 at 10:27 am | Comments 0 -
Sharks erupt in third period for 8-5 win
The starts to games for the San Jose Sharks haven’t been all that great recently. However, with their latest comeback win, the Sharks became the first team in NHL history to win three consecutive games in regulation after trailing going into the third period. Today’s version was especially sweet; after a horrid first two periods, [...]
Tejus Govindjie | March 12, 2010 at 2:18 am | Comments 0 -
Predators Embarrassed to Find Game Lasts 60 Minutes, Not 40; Drop 8-5 Game to Sharks
Up 4-2 to start through two periods of their game with the San Jose Sharks, the game looked in hand for the Nashville Predators and two precious points were going to be secured. Unfortunately for the Predators, it’s a three period game, and in the third, the Predators absolutely fell apart. As a result of [...]
theviewfrom111 | March 12, 2010 at 1:34 am | Comments 0 -
Point taken
The Los Angeles Kings need to take the point and run with it against the dominant Blackhawks club.
Anthony | March 11, 2010 at 9:14 pm | Comments 0 -
The Longest Trip In History
On January 30th the Vancouver Canucks started what was to be the longest road trip in NHL history. During this time they traveled a total of 20,737 kilometers. The first game of the colossal fourteen game expedition began with a win against the Leafs, it ended on March 10th with an overtime loss to Phoenix. [...]
James C Edgington | March 11, 2010 at 2:51 pm | Comments 0 -
Stick a Fork in Em – Rangers R Done
Well folks, last nights latest debacle, a 6-3 loss to NJ just solidified what I have been saying now for quite a while. This team is a total train wreck and it is pretty much a foregone conclusion that they will miss the playoffs this year. Too many mistakes last night leading to Devil goals and [...]
howie9416 | March 11, 2010 at 10:41 am | Comments 1 -
Gut Check Time Round One: B’s Battle Leafs Without Savard & Chara
Just like that, the Bruins journey to the playoffs has become that much harder. Despite quietly winning six of their last eight games, you’d think the Boston Bruins were already eliminated from playoff contention with the events that have transpired over the past 72 hours. After losing Marc Savard, likely for the season, in their [...]
Ty Anderson | March 9, 2010 at 6:04 pm | Comments 0 -
Lack Of Fight In Bruins Reveals Bigger Issue
For most Bruins fans, Sunday’s events in Pittsburgh were shocking, but for others it simply spoke volumes to what this season has been for the black-and-gold: one giant lack of heart from one of last season’s most intimidating units.
Striking fear in their opposition was the mission statement of the 2008-09 Boston Bruins. If you touched [...]Ty Anderson | March 9, 2010 at 2:48 pm | Comments 0 -
Flyers look to continue winning ways over Isles
Tonight the Philadelphia Flyers will look to build on their win against the Toronto Maple Leafs Sunday when they host the New York Islanders from the Wachovia Center.
The Flyers come into the game 6-3-1 in their last 10 where the Islanders are a lowly 3-7-1.
This will be the fifth of six meetings between the two Atlantic [...]difrancesco86 | March 9, 2010 at 2:03 pm | Comments 0 -
Vancouver 2010: The Olympics Through the Eyes of a Hometown Hockey Fan
First Off, You may have been wondering where I have gone in terms of my writing over the last couple weeks, sadly living on a friends couch during the Olympics doesn’t allow for spare time to work on new articles. Over the last three weeks, I took in the Olympic Games from the city of [...]
TheFlyingV | March 9, 2010 at 1:33 pm | Comments 1 -
Cooke’s hit on Savard reignites endless firestorm on respect, safety
“He falls; he concusses” seems well on its way to becoming a phrase as synonymous with NHL hockey as “he shoots; he scores”. Yesterday afternoon, late in the Penguins’ 2-1 victory over visiting Boston, Pittsburgh left wing Matt Cooke lifted his left elbow or forearm just enough to deliver a check to Boston forward Marc Savard as [...]
PenguinsMarch | March 8, 2010 at 11:58 pm | Comments 1 -
The Last Days of Huet The Hawk?
The career of Cristobal Huet as a Chicago Blackhawk may be coming to a close. For some, it can’t come soon enough. When Huet gave up four goals on seven shots in six minutes in the second period of the Hawks’ game versus Detroit, Sunday, March 7th, the home crowd at the United Center seemed to issue their final condemnation. The internet fan forums reverberated with anger and frustration directed at the French-born netminder. The failed efforts to trade him, widely speculated upon in the press, appear to confirm his departure is just a matter of time.
David Morris | March 8, 2010 at 4:49 pm | Comments 22 -
Quenneville Slips Hawks Fall
The stage was set on Sunday.
A national TV audience, the most hated rival and the largest United Center crowd of the season were waiting. The Blackhawks had a chance to follow their smack down of the Vancouver Canucks with another significant triumph but it wouldn’t be so.
Losing to the Detroit Red Wings isn’t necessarily an [...]Al Cimaglia | March 8, 2010 at 11:53 am | Comments 8 -
Monday Musings: Road Trip Wrap-Up / Home Stand Preview
Going into last night’s game against the Anaheim Ducks, there’s no way Habs fans couldn’t be happy with the previous three games their team had faced on the road.
A win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday included 4 unanswered third period goals and a good team game to bring the Canadiens to a 4-1 victory [...]George Prax | March 8, 2010 at 11:45 am | Comments 0 -
2 More Games Down, 2 More Losses for the Inept Rangers
The Rangers showed this weekend that they truly are not worthy of a playoff spot come next month. They showed zip offensively losing 2-0 on Saturday in DC which was Auld’s NYR debut and it took a late goal by Dubinsky tonight to break a 149:30 goalless drought in a 2-1 OT loss to Buffalo [...]
howie9416 | March 7, 2010 at 10:04 pm | Comments 0 -
Predators Give Away A Game And Two Vital Points to Vancouver
Going in to the third period with a 2-1 lead over the Vancouver Canucks, the Predators needed to keep playing the way they had played through two periods: keep pressuring the Canucks in the zone and play solid defense. Unfortunately, the Predators did neither in the third period and dropped a 4-2 decision.
Alexander Edler gave [...]theviewfrom111 | March 7, 2010 at 8:45 pm | Comments 0 -
R-E-S-P-E-C-T…
Then and Now…
I am so sickened by what I saw today, I am not sure if I should even write this…
Last year the Bruins were known for their team toughness, mess with one of them and be prepared to put yourself in the crosshairs of everyone in Black and Gold. Need an example?? Ask Steve [...]CJ Shepard | March 7, 2010 at 6:47 pm | Comments 3 -
Olympic break hangover – cured
What has gone on in Los Angeles? An opportunity, which the team jumped on, in rebounding last night against Columbus.
Anthony | March 7, 2010 at 1:31 pm | Comments 0 -
Penguins march into March with a new Pony and a new Leopold
The Pittsburgh Penguins have shown no sluggishness coming into the month of March and out of the Olympic break, posting three consecutive wins over Buffalo, New York Rangers and Dallas. Along the way, general manager Ray Shero once again, pulled off some subtle but important transactions ahead of this past Wednesday’s trade deadline.
Combined with the [...]PenguinsMarch | March 6, 2010 at 11:18 pm | Comments 0 -
Fish and Chips…the Bruins start the road trip with a win.
The NY Islanders have given the Bruins all kinds of trouble this season. The young Isles, coached by Bruins disciple Scott Gordon has the blue and orange nipping at the heels of the Bruins, headed into this afternoon’s critical matinee. The Bruins traveled to the Coli for the first game of a road trip that [...]
CJ Shepard | March 6, 2010 at 6:02 pm | Comments 0 -
Wings For Brunch After Hawks Feast On Canucks
On Friday night, for the first time in it what seemed like a few months the Blackhawks wave attack was in full force. They put “pretty” away and overwhelmed the Canucks in the opening 20 minutes. When the dust settled the Hawks put a five spot on Roberto Luongo and the game was never in [...]
Al Cimaglia | March 6, 2010 at 5:57 pm | Comments 2 -
Black and Gold ramblings of the wounded fan…
It wasn’t all that long ago that the Garden (TD Bank, or TD Bank North, or whatever the heck the name of the week was at the time) stood half-empty with uninspired, mostly bitter Bruins observers – sprinkled with the “die hard” fan. The team had been gutted by management following the lock-out and the [...]
CJ Shepard | March 6, 2010 at 12:33 pm | Comments 0 -
Wings Whip the Predators 5-2
In their game the previous night against the L.A. Kings, the Nashville Predators did the little things that led to a victory. They controlled play in the neutral zone and forechecked aggressively. In their game against the Detroit Red Wings tonight, they did very little right and paid for it with a 5-2 loss.
If the [...]theviewfrom111 | March 5, 2010 at 10:33 pm | Comments 0 -
Lapierre Suspended Four Games
The National Hockey League has suspended Montreal Canadiens forward Maxime Lapierre for four games for hitting San Jose forward Scott Nichol early in the third period during last night’s game. While no penalty was assessed on the hit itself in-game, the hit was late and unnecessary, as Nichol had already followed through with the hit.
While [...]George Prax | March 5, 2010 at 7:14 pm | Comments 0 -
A Telling Test For Blackhawks
The Hawks approach an important stretch of games. After the next few weeks Chicago fans will have a much better idea if the Blackhawks will be a Stanley Cup favorite.
The eight upcoming Hawk games will feature the Canucks, Wings, Kings, Flyers, Capitals, Ducks, Kings and Coyotes.
To conclude the eight game stint is a West Coast trip. [...]Al Cimaglia | March 5, 2010 at 11:28 am | Comments 5 -
THREE IS A CROWD: Says Some NY Islanders Players
Several players, preferring to stay anonymous had a few things to say over the goalie glut on Long Island. This should be no surprise since fans, media and just about anyone else have been scratching our heads over this past trade deadline when since last summer it seemed that the Isles would have more to [...]
BDGallof | March 5, 2010 at 10:43 am | Comments 14 -
Bruins Saved By Thomas & Satan’s Shootout Efforts
At this rate, the Bruins can’t care if it’s pretty, it’s all about getting the two points and staying afloat in the rapidly changing Eastern Conference playoff picture. Fortunately for Boston, they did just in their survival against the Toronto Marlies, errr, I mean Maple Leafs tonight at the TD Garden. In what’s bound to [...]
Ty Anderson | March 5, 2010 at 4:40 am | Comments 1 -
Sharks rally around missed call
Scott Nichol is usually the driving force behind the San Jose Sharks’ energy and physical play. In another game where the Sharks came out a little sluggish, it was an injury to Nichol in the third period that sparked a comeback. After falling behind by a goal twice, the Sharks were able to tie the [...]
Tejus Govindjie | March 5, 2010 at 2:10 am | Comments 2 -
The Revenge of Wojtek Wolski
Just the day after the Avs and Phoenix swapped players Wojtek Wolski and Peter Mueller, the teams faced off in Phoenix.
The game started with Cody McLeod reminding Wojtek Wolski that he now played for the enemy. McLeod gave Wolski a few rough shoves in front of the net within the first minutes of the game.
Wolski [...]J Scott Moore | March 5, 2010 at 1:20 am | Comments 0 -
Predators Knock Down the Kings 4-2
Sometimes, it is the little things that make a difference in a game. In a tight playoff race, little things become big things. Tonight, the Predators did the little things well and the result was a 4-2 victory over the L.A. Kings, a team that had won 11 of their last 13 games.
The Predators consistently [...]theviewfrom111 | March 5, 2010 at 12:13 am | Comments 0 -
On the Road Again: Canucks overcome Olympic Hangover against BJ’s and ‘Wings
After one of the most exciting and memorable hockey games of all time on Sunday, it’s not surprising that Roberto Luongo was given the night off against Columbus on Tuesday, allowing Andrew Raycroft to get a rare start. Luongo looked almost comfortable and at peace on the bench for a change, I guess a gold [...]
TheFlyingV | March 4, 2010 at 9:56 pm | Comments 0 -
They’re back
The Olympics are over. Drew Doughty, Dustin Brown and Jonathan Quick are all coming home with medals. However, they are all coming home united as Kings again.
On Monday night, the Olympic break proved beneficial to one team and not so much to the other. The Detroit Red Wings who seemed to be healthy for the [...]Anthony | March 4, 2010 at 6:07 pm | Comments 1 -
Bruins Look To End Home Woes With Visit From Kessel & Leafs
It wasn’t a good Tuesday night for the Bruins and their fans as Montreal stormed back in the third period, sweeping the season series at the TD Garden by way of a 4-1 knockout, and Wednesday didn’t appear to provide any relief with the Bruins standing pat up front at the trading deadline. Now, the [...]
Ty Anderson | March 4, 2010 at 5:19 pm | Comments 0 -
Puzzled By Peter: Bruins Trade Morris & Acquire Seidenberg
Rewind back to September 19th when the Boston Bruins sent 2008-09 leading goal scorer Phil Kessel to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for two first round picks and a second in this and (next) year’s draft and you’ll see why Bruins fans were a little bit perplexed by the moves made by Peter Chiarelli [...]
Ty Anderson | March 4, 2010 at 3:42 pm | Comments 0 -
Sometimes Less Is More
In recent years Vancouver has become notorious for it’s lack of activity at the trade deadline. Last year Mike Gillis opted to do absolutely nothing, a year earlier Matt Pettinger was the sole acquisition. Yesterday was also a relatively quiet affair with only three deals made.
Leading up to the deadline the Canucks had some issues [...]James C Edgington | March 4, 2010 at 12:32 pm | Comments 1 -
Leighton, Flyers collapse in loss to Panthers, 7-4
Last night was the worst possible timing on the part of the Philadelphia Flyers goaltending to have an epic failure. Just hours before, the Flyers decided not to bring in a number one netminder but to stay the course with Michael Leighton before the NHL trade deadline at 3pm. Unfortunately, the Flyers didn’t plan on watching [...]
difrancesco86 | March 4, 2010 at 12:31 pm | Comments 4 -
Who Will Get The Last Laugh?
If you missed last night’s game let me quickly summarize.
In general the Hawks dominated the action against a weak opponent. But they still committed enough mistakes to allow the Oilers to be in the contest after 40 minutes.
The errors came in the fashion of defensive zone turnovers plus a lack consistent effort. Last but not [...]Al Cimaglia | March 4, 2010 at 12:00 pm | Comments 6 -
CRITICAL MASS: Isles Flub Opportunity At Trade Deadline?
It was worst secret ever by an organization that now takes great care on what goes to the press and rumormill. When the Isles added Marty Biron along with Dwayne Roloson it was universally lauded as an insurance plan move that would pay-off come trade deadline.
As Dwayne Roloson played to an all-star level to [...]BDGallof | March 4, 2010 at 11:34 am | Comments 17 -
Predators Trade Day Post Mortem
The Nashville Predators added two players after the Olympic break to bolster the roster for a run at playoff positioning. Defenseman Dennis Grebeshkov was acquired from the Edmonton Oilers and forward Dustin Boyd was acquired from Calgary.
Grebeshkov was acquired for second round draft pick while the Predators gave up a fourth round pick for Boyd.
Predator [...]theviewfrom111 | March 3, 2010 at 10:44 pm | Comments 0
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